I seem to have taken a break from blogging....again. Actually, I have been busily putting together a new class and the first lesson posted for students *officially* today. That means it really went up last night. [laugh]
The last two weeks are still being finished and polished, but I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. And it doesn't look like a train. Yippee!!
In looking at a few resources for one of those unfinished weeks I started getting lost in links. Fun links! Landed in the SXSW site. I forget about that nifty little festival since I am no longer involved in the comings and goings of Music Row...thank goodness!
I did notice the web awards. Seems the winners will be announced in a ceremony tomorrow.
The finalists are here:
http://www.sxsw.com/interactive/web_awards/finalists/
Before I made it to the finalists' page, I was clicking the *random website* link over on the main site. Peek at one, reload and check another.
Although there were some pretty things there, I was a bit dismayed to see the sort of out of date and/or invalid coding used in many that I hit. Should decent coding not be part of the criterion? Certainly would be if *I* ran the circus. {{sigh}}
From the few I have checked in the finalists, it may have counted for something with the judges. The selections are looking a bit more inline with what I would have expected. But I reserve judgment until I look at a few more. ;^)
So fingers are crossed for Zen Garden to be the shining star of the day. I do see it made the final cut. There are some other goodies there as well. I need to go back and poke around a bit, then it's back to polishing the lessons to send others in the direction of valid XHTML and CSS.
And no Becky, I am not picking on your precious Flash. I am fussing about the static pages...[snicker]
Writing those lessons has been a learning experience in and of itself. I don't *do* logical thinking very often. If giving it a try doesn't kill me, it certainly may push me over that dreaded edge.
Happy Trails!
Farron
[and that TOTALLY valid but often inaccessible _^..^_ ]
That is a neat link. You find some interesting stuff!
dT